UK Local Authorities and EU renewable energy targets Yesterday saw the launch of a report from SPRU at University of Sussex and Friends of the Earth entitled Transforming the UK’s Energy System: Policies for the 2020 Renewables Target and Beyond. It consists of a review of where we are now on the path towards meeting [...]
These is a list references for the two linked posts on the EROEI of electricity supply and the EROEI of electricity balancing. I would really appreciate it if readers could post links to any omissions or to any new papers that I miss in order to improve the statistical validity of the trajectory graph. In particular this [...]
Edit: There’s an update to this post here giving Water UK’s official figures for the past ten years. Their latest figure for 2010/2011 is 0.79 gCO2/litre. In the UK we use about 150 litres of water per person per day in our homes. But what is the carbon impact of that water?[1] A new calculator [...]
SAP 2009, the government’s way of assessing compliance with Part L of Building Regulations, is to be introduced in October 1st of this year. Many of the changes in there are welcome. I’m particularly glad to see “confidence factors” for untested thermal bridging calculations which I had expected to be lobbied against hard. However as [...]
NI185: London Boroughs NI185: All of England Skimming through the names in the NI185 release, I had a feeling that there were a lot of rural LAs with low emissions per capita, and urban ones with higher emissions per capita. To see whether that was accurate or not I went to a dataset on the [...]
NI185: London Boroughs NI185: Rural vs Urban This monster graph comes with the same caveats as yesterday’s. Several LAs have not submitted complete sets of figures and so all this should be treated as draft. Next year’s figures should be more accurate. I had really hoped to compare this with Stockholm Environment Institute’s REAP data [...]
NI185: All of England NI185: Rural vs Urban Important edit: It has been pointed out to me by a little birdie that some of the Boroughs have submitted less-than-complete NI185 reports in anticipation of having to do the same work all over again for the Carbon Reduction Commitment. This means that major outliers should be [...]
In writing this post I felt like I was channeling a door-to-door double glazing salesman. If you hear this set of arguments from a bloke on your doorstep with a clipboard, an earnest expression and an insistent, nay desperate tone of voice then I apologise in advance! As a sustainability consultant it is quite easy [...]
